--- title: Methods description: What do you want to do? image: https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/favicons/android-chrome-256x256.png --- # What do you want to do? [Go back to API documentation index](..) [Go to the old code-version method index](api_README.md) * [Logout](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/logout.html) * [Login](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/LOGIN.html) * [Change 2FA password](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/update2fa.html) * [Get all chats, broadcast a message to all chats](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/DIALOGS.html) * [Get the full participant list of a channel/group/supergroup](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getPwrChat.html) * [Get full info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getFullInfo.html) * [Get info about a user/chat/supergroup/channel](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getInfo.html) * [Get info about the currently logged-in user](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/getSelf.html) * [Upload or download files up to 1.5 GB](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/FILES.html) * [Make a phone call and play a song](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/CALLS.html) * [Create a secret chat bot](https://docs.madelineproto.xyz/docs/SECRET_CHATS.html) * Adds a user to a chat and sends a service message on it: messages.addChatUser * Adds the user to the blacklist: contacts.block * Binds a temporary authorization key temp_auth_key_id to the permanent authorization key perm_auth_key_id. Each permanent key may only be bound to one temporary key at a time, binding a new temporary key overwrites the previous one: auth.bindTempAuthKey * Cancels a request for creation and/or delete info on secret chat: messages.discardEncryption * Chanages chat name and sends a service message on it: messages.editChatTitle * Change privacy settings of current account: account.setPrivacy * Change the phone number of the current account: account.changePhone * Change the photo of a channel/supergroup: channels.editPhoto * Change the username of a supergroup/channel: channels.updateUsername * Changes chat photo and sends a service message on it: messages.editChatPhoto * Changes username for the current user: account.updateUsername * Check if a username is free and can be assigned to a channel/supergroup: channels.checkUsername * Check the validity of a chat invite link and get basic info about it: messages.checkChatInvite * Confirms creation of a secret chat: messages.acceptEncryption * Confirms receipt of messages by a client, cancels PUSH-notification sending: messages.receivedMessages * Confirms receipt of messages in a secret chat by client, cancels push notifications: messages.receivedQueue * Create a supergroup/channel: channels.createChannel * Creates a new chat: messages.createChat * Delete a channel/supergroup: channels.deleteChannel * Delete all messages sent by a certain user in a supergroup: channels.deleteUserHistory * Delete messages in a channel/supergroup: channels.deleteMessages * Delete the user's account from the telegram servers. Can be used, for example, to delete the account of a user that provided the login code, but forgot the 2FA password and no recovery method is configured: account.deleteAccount * Deletes a device by its token, stops sending PUSH-notifications to it: account.unregisterDevice * Deletes a user from a chat and sends a service message on it: messages.deleteChatUser * Deletes communication history: messages.deleteHistory * Deletes messages by their identifiers: messages.deleteMessages * Deletes profile photos: photos.deletePhotos * Deletes several contacts from the list: contacts.deleteContacts * Deletes the user from the blacklist: contacts.unblock * Edit the name of a channel/supergroup: channels.editTitle * Edits notification settings from a given user/group, from all users/all groups: account.updateNotifySettings * Export an invite link for a chat: messages.exportChatInvite * Forwards messages by their IDs: messages.forwardMessages * Get channel/supergroup messages: channels.getMessages * Get all installed stickers: messages.getAllStickers * Get and increase the view counter of a message sent or forwarded from a channel: messages.getMessagesViews * Get changelog of current app. : help.getAppChangelog * Get days to live of account: account.getAccountTTL * Get full info about a channel: channels.getFullChannel * Get info about channels/supergroups: channels.getChannels * Get info about a channel/supergroup participant: channels.getParticipant * Get info about a stickerset: messages.getStickerSet * Get logged-in sessions: account.getAuthorizations * Get new updates: updates.getDifference * Get preview of webpage: messages.getWebPagePreview * Get privacy settings of current account: account.getPrivacy * Get private info associated to the password info (recovery email, telegram passport info & so on): account.getPasswordSettings * Get stickers by emoji: messages.getStickers * Get the participants of a channel: channels.getParticipants * Gets back found messages: messages.search * Gets back the conversation history with one interlocutor / within a chat: messages.getHistory * Gets current notification settings for a given user/group, from all users/all groups: account.getNotifySettings * Import a chat invite and join a private chat/supergroup/channel: messages.importChatInvite * Imports contacts: saves a full list on the server, adds already registered contacts to the contact list, returns added contacts and their info: contacts.importContacts * Initialize connection: initConnection * Install a stickerset: messages.installStickerSet * Installs a previously uploaded photo as a profile photo: photos.updateProfilePhoto * Invite users to a channel/supergroup: channels.inviteToChannel * Invoke a request without subscribing the used connection for updates (this is enabled by default for file queries): invokeWithoutUpdates * Invoke the specified query using the specified API layer: invokeWithLayer * Invokes a query after a successfull completion of previous queries: invokeAfterMsgs * Invokes a query after successfull completion of one of the previous queries: invokeAfterMsg * Join a channel/supergroup: channels.joinChannel * Leave a channel/supergroup: channels.leaveChannel * Log out an active authorized session by its hash: account.resetAuthorization * Login as a bot: auth.importBotAuthorization * Logs in a user using a key transmitted from his native data-centre: auth.importAuthorization * Logs out the user: auth.logOut * Make a user admin in a legacy group: messages.editChatAdmin * Mark channel/supergroup history as read: channels.readHistory * Marks message history as read: messages.readHistory * Marks message history within a secret chat as read: messages.readEncryptedHistory * Modify the admin rights of a user in a supergroup/channel: channels.editAdmin * Notifies the sender about the recipient having listened a voice message or watched a video: messages.readMessageContents * Obtain configuration for two-factor authorization with password: account.getPassword * Register device to receive PUSH notifications: account.registerDevice * Registers a validated phone number in the system: auth.signUp * Report a new incoming chat for spam, if the peer settings of the chat allow us to do that: messages.reportSpam * Reports some messages from a user in a supergroup as spam; requires administrator rights in the supergroup: channels.reportSpam * Request recovery code of a 2FA password, only for accounts with a recovery email configured: auth.requestPasswordRecovery * Reset the 2FA password using the recovery code sent using auth.requestPasswordRecovery: auth.recoverPassword * Resets all notification settings from users and groups: account.resetNotifySettings * Resolve a @username to get peer info: contacts.resolveUsername * Returns a current state of updates: updates.getState * Returns a list of available wallpapers: account.getWallPapers * Returns basic user info according to their identifiers: users.getUsers * Returns chat basic info on their IDs: messages.getChats * Returns configuration parameters for Diffie-Hellman key generation. Can also return a random sequence of bytes of required length: messages.getDhConfig * Returns content of a whole file or its part: upload.getFile * Returns current configuration, including data center configuration: help.getConfig * Returns data for copying authorization to another data-centre: auth.exportAuthorization * Returns extended user info by ID: users.getFullUser * Returns full chat info according to its ID: messages.getFullChat * Returns info on data centre nearest to the user: help.getNearestDc * Returns information on update availability for the current application: help.getAppUpdate * Returns localized text of a text message with an invitation: help.getInviteText * Returns the current user dialog list: messages.getDialogs * Returns the current user's contact list: contacts.getContacts * Returns the difference between the current state of updates of a certain channel and transmitted: updates.getChannelDifference * Returns the list of blocked users: contacts.getBlocked * Returns the list of contact statuses: contacts.getStatuses * Returns the list of messages by their IDs: messages.getMessages * Returns the list of user photos: photos.getUserPhotos * Returns the support user for the 'ask a question' feature: help.getSupport * Returns users found by username substring: contacts.search * Saves a part of a large file (over 10Mb in size) to be later passed to one of the methods: upload.saveBigFilePart * Saves a part of file for futher sending to one of the methods: upload.saveFilePart * Saves logs of application on the server: help.saveAppLog * Search for messages and peers globally: messages.searchGlobal * Send a media: messages.sendMedia * Send the verification code for login: auth.sendCode * Send typing event by the current user to a secret chat: messages.setEncryptedTyping * Sends a current user typing event (see SendMessageAction for all event types) to a conversation partner or group: messages.setTyping * Sends a message to a chat: messages.sendMessage * Sends a message with a file attachment to a secret chat: messages.sendEncryptedFile * Sends a request to start a secret chat to the user: messages.requestEncryption * Sends a service message to a secret chat: messages.sendEncryptedService * Sends a text message to a secret chat: messages.sendEncrypted * Set a new 2FA password: account.updatePasswordSettings * Set account self-destruction period: account.setAccountTTL * Signs in a user with a validated phone number: auth.signIn * Start a conversation with a bot using a deep linking parameter: messages.startBot * Terminates all user's authorized sessions except for the current one: auth.resetAuthorizations * Try logging to an account protected by a 2FA password: auth.checkPassword * Turn a legacy group into a supergroup: messages.migrateChat * Uninstall a stickerset: messages.uninstallStickerSet * Updates current user profile photo: photos.uploadProfilePhoto * Updates online user status: account.updateStatus * Updates user profile: account.updateProfile * Validates a username and checks availability: account.checkUsername * Verify a new phone number to associate to the current account: account.sendChangePhoneCode * When client-side passcode lock feature is enabled, will not show message texts in incoming PUSH notifications: account.updateDeviceLocked